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Commit cc80393d authored by Andrew Solovay's avatar Andrew Solovay
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docs: Removed note that GET_ACCOUNTS was deprecated 

We've decided not to deprecate GET_ACCOUNTS yet, but per emails,
we don't want to announce that it now *isn't* deprecated (because we
don't want to encourage people to use this permission); instead,
we're just going to not mention it at all.

Also cleaned up the following section on file permissions while I had
it open.

See first comment for doc stage location.

bug: 28727522
Change-Id: I27d21d186bdbf9ce905f3fb6a29027343a6daaf5
parent b7f56311

docs/html/preview/behavior-changes.jd

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    </ol>

  </li>

  <li><a href="#perm">Permissions Changes</a>

    <ol>

      <li><a href="#permfilesys">File System Permission Changes</a></li>

    </ol>

  </li>

  <li><a href="#accessibility">Accessibility Improvements</a>

    <ol>
@@ -188,29 +185,16 @@ page.image=images/cards/card-n-changes_2x.png 
<h2 id="perm">Permissions Changes</h2>



<p>

  Android N includes changes to permissions that may affect your app,

  including user accounts permissions and a new permission for writing to

  external storage. Here is a summary of the permissions that have changed in

  the preview:

  Android N includes changes to permissions that may affect your app.

</p>



<ul>

  <li>{@code GET_ACCOUNTS} (Deprecated)

    <p>

      The GET_ACCOUNTS permission is now deprecated. The system ignores this

      permission for apps that target Android N.

    </p>

  </li>



</ul>



<h3 id="permfilesys">File system permission changes</h3>



<p>

  In order to improve the security of private files, the private directory of

  apps targeting Android N or higher has restricted access (0700). This prevents

  leakage of metadata of private files, such as their size or existence. This

  has multiple side effects:

  apps targeting Android N or higher has restricted access (<code>0700</code>).

  This change prevents leakage of metadata of private files, such as their size

  or existence. This change has multiple side effects:

</p>



<ul>
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    Legacy applications that set the download location to a public location by

    using

    {@link

    android.app.DownloadManager.Request#setDestinationInExternalFilesDir} or

    android.app.DownloadManager.Request#setDestinationInExternalFilesDir

    DownloadManager.Request.setDestinationInExternalFilesDir()} or

    {@link

    android.app.DownloadManager.Request#setDestinationInExternalPublicDir}

    android.app.DownloadManager.Request#setDestinationInExternalPublicDir

    DownloadManager.Request.setDestinationInExternalPublicDir()}

    can still access the path in

    {@link android.app.DownloadManager#COLUMN_LOCAL_FILENAME}, however, this

    method is strongly discouraged. The preferred way of accessing a file

    exposed by the {@link android.app.DownloadManager} is using

    {@link android.content.ContentResolver#openFileDescriptor}.

    {@link android.content.ContentResolver#openFileDescriptor

    ContentResolver.openFileDescriptor()}.

  </li>

</ul>